Hello fine gentlemen, gentlewomen and gentleothers.

I have a Ukrainian keyboard where 2 keys don’t match with the Ukrainian layout and, unfortunately, I can’t exactly swap them nor edit the firmware or anything of the sort. This is a problem for me because I can’t touch type on my own layout let alone a layout I’m still learning where everything is.

Does anyone know a program where I can edit a keyboard layout, preferably graphically (I love CLI and TUIs but this task would be easier graphically for me), on KDE Plasma with wayland?

Thanks in advance

  • sga@piefed.socialEnglish
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    14 days ago

    I would suggest you to copy a reference layout from /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/(prefered language)

    and then see what keys do not fit. it is a plain text file, and looks something like the following

    
    key <AD01> {[ q, Q, NoSymbol, NoSymbol, U211A ]};  
    key <AD02> {[ w, W ]};  
    key <AD03> {[ e, E, Greek_epsilon, eacute ]};  
    key <AD04> {[ r, R, Greek_rho, NoSymbol, U211D ]};  
    key <AD05> {[ t, T, Greek_theta, Greek_tau, NoSymbol, trademark ]};  
    key <AD06> {[ y, Y, dagger ]};  
    key <AD07> {[ u, U ]};  
    key <AD08> {[ i, I, integral, dintegral, Greek_iota ]};  
    key <AD09> {[ o, O, Greek_omega, Greek_OMEGA ]};  
    key <AD10> {[ p, P, Greek_pi, Greek_PI, Greek_psi, Greek_PSI ]};  
    key <AD11> {[ bracketleft, braceleft ]};  
    key <AD12> {[ bracketright, braceright ]};  

    key <AC01> {[ a, A, Greek_alpha, ae ]};  
    key <AC02> {[ s, S, Greek_sigma, Greek_SIGMA, Greek_finalsmallsigma ]};  
    key <AC03> {[ d, D, Greek_delta, Greek_DELTA ]};  
    key <AC04> {[ f, F, Greek_phi, Greek_PHI ]};  
    key <AC05> {[ g, G, Greek_gamma, Greek_GAMMA ]};  
    key <AC06> {[ h, H, Left, Left, Greek_eta, NoSymbol ]};  
    key <AC07> {[ j, J, Down, Down, NoSymbol, NoSymbol ]};  
    key <AC08> {[ k, K, Up, Up, Greek_kappa, NoSymbol ]};  
    key <AC09> {[ l, L, Right, Right, Greek_lambda, Greek_LAMBDA ]};  
    key <AC10> {[ colon, semicolon ]};  
    key <AC11> {[ apostrophe, quotedbl ]};  
    key <BKSL> {[ backslash, bar  ]};

    suppose you wanna switch q and e in this example, just switch them, and move this file to above location, and change layout from settings wherever you do (most de/wm have some place to change layout). I do this for greek symbols as you can see above, but you can do a lot like this.

    for more details, check the following post https://lemmings.world/post/24385694